On July 4-5, Romania’s Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu pays a working visit to Germany to meet Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor, and Katrin Goring-Eckardt , the deputy chair of the German federal Parliament, and also to participate in meetings with business and defence industry leaders, write Agerpres.

Featuring on Ciolacu’s agenda on July 4 is the meeting with Scholz followed by a joint news conference.

Also on the first day of the visit, Ciolacu is scheduled to meet leaders of the Romanian community in the Germany and lay a wreath at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin.

On Wednesday, the second day of the working visit, Ciuca will meet Goring-Eckardt and leaders of the main political groups in the German Parliament.

The visit is said to also have an important economic component, as Ciolacu will attend meetings with local business and defence industry leaders.

„Co-operation between Romania and Germany has a significant potential, which I am convinced that we can use even more to mutual interest. Germany is Romania’s most important trade partner, a fact that constitutes a solid basis for the intensification of our bilateral relationship that offers real perspectives that we want to realise as soon as possible,” Ciuca is quoted as saying in a press statement.

The official retinue led by Ciolacu includes Foreign Minister Luminita Odobescu; Minister of Economy, Entrepreneurship and Tourism Radu Oprea; Defence Minister Angel Tilvar; MP Ovidiu Gant, member of the Parliamentary Group of National Minorities; MEP Victor Negrescu, honorary adviser to the prime minister; and senior officials with the Chancellery of the Prime Minister.